Dassault Systèmes Supports Industrial Strategies in France and China
with its 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Co-Leader of France’s “Industry of the Future” Now Collaborating
on the “Made in China 2025” Initiative to Accelerate High Performing and
Innovative Production Systems

November 04, 2016 02:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France & SHANGHAI--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Dassault
Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA)(Paris:DSY), the
3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital
Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today
announced that digital platforms for innovation are at the heart of
industrial strategies in France and China. As its “Manufacturing
in the Age of Experience” event takes place in Shanghai from
November 3-4, 2016, Dassault Systèmes is uniquely positioned to
demonstrate how digital technology is a main driver of France’s
“Industry of the Future” and China’s “Made in China 2025” industrial
innovation programs to reduce manufacturing costs, increase efficiencies
and sustainability, inspire creativity and generate new business models.

“Digital’s most visible value is to increase productivity and
competitiveness, but its true power is the imagination. Manufacturers
that succeed will be those that will create a world which does not yet
exist”

Today the internet is taking on an industrial dimension whereby new
equipment, materials, autonomous robots and other technologies are
transforming the way goods are produced. Industrial innovation must
integrate multiple digital concepts to revolutionize existing processes
and create a dynamic, holistic and more sustainable production model
that results in a better consumer experience. Governments and companies
around the world are recognizing the industrial and economic potential
in launching manufacturing automation and optimization initiatives to
revitalize industry by having these digital concepts at their core.

Both France and China have placed a strong focus on the use of digital
platforms to accelerate industrial change through an integrated,
end-to-end collaboration between people, information and ideas.

“Beginning in 2012, the French government launched a wide range of
reforms to help the country's industry take advantage of the digital
revolution,” said Christophe Sirugue, French Minister of State for
Industry. “France's industrial base has come together in the ‘Industry
of the Future’ alliance, to which the government has allocated a nine
billion euro budget. France's industry is open towards the world, and
China is the best place to shed new light on our innovations.”

Dassault Systèmes is co-leader of France’s “Industry of the Future”
alliance, and is also working closely with industry in China to
digitally transform its manufacturing sector, currently the largest in
the world. In addition to organizing and hosting “Manufacturing in the
Age of Experience,” the company is collaborating on projects involving
the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with leading businesses aspiring to the “Made
in China 2025” objectives.

“Digital’s most visible value is to increase productivity and
competitiveness, but its true power is the imagination. Manufacturers
that succeed will be those that will create a world which does not yet
exist,” said Pascal Daloz, Executive Vice President, Brands and
Corporate Development, Dassault Systèmes. “Dassault Systèmes provides
3DEXPERIENCE universes for collaboration and innovation to implement
innovative strategies in supply and demand. The digital factory is not
only virtual, connected and automated, but is above all an execution
system, where men’s skills are turned to innovation, performance,
quality and continuous change. The virtual becomes constitutive of the
products themselves. As a consequence, the value is migrating to the
cloud services where data are a strategic asset for the industry to
reinvent itself.”

For over 30 years, Dassault Systèmes has been developing technologies
and solutions that propel digital transformation in industries ranging
from aerospace to life sciences and is participating in more than 50
global initiatives dedicated to advancing world-class production
technologies and processes. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform features virtual
design, simulation, manufacturing and collaboration applications in a
digital environment that integrate products, processes and supply
chains, and offer a federated view of a manufacturer’s business in real
time. This has broad implications for sustainability, as its digital
applications enable industry to think differently — already, many of the
Corporate Knights’ 2016 Top 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the
World (Global 100) index are Dassault Systèmes’ customers.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and
people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its
world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed,
produced, and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions
foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world
to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 210,000
customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.
For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

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